Day 31 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Well my Horrifying Hoppers, the time has come.  Today is the last day of our month long hop.  I can't believe it has been a whole month already.  Man, I guess it's true what they say...Time flies when you are having fun.

Before I show you what I have created for today, I have to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful hubby.  Yep, he's a Halloween baby.  He turns 36 today!  He's edging closer to the age I am now..lol  Happy Birthday honey.  I love you!

So, I had 6 images that I wanted to use, but didn't have enough days to use them.  So, I decided at the last minute to make a little 5x5 chipboard book.  My idea was bigger than the time I had available.  I still have to go back and do some embellishing, but I have the basics done.

This is kind of a long post so grab a cuppa and get comfortable.

This is the first page using a Delicious Doodles image that I won earlier in the Scavenger Hunt.  I used Crayola colored pencils and OMS.  The paper is from a piece of Teresa Collins collage paper that I cut apart, inked and added randomly.  The sentiment says, "Blue eyes can be very deceptive.  We can be sweet as as blue summer sky, but make sure you run if they turn dark and stormy."

The backside of this page is an image from Jade Draggone.  I used the same coloring medium but added some Glossy Accents to the lantern.

I haven't come up with a sentiment for this one yet.  My brain was getting tired. :)

Page 3 uses  another image from Jade Draggone.  I used alcohol markers on this one.  I fussy cut her out and inked the edges with DI Vintage Photo.  The sentiment says, "Don't ever let anyone make you feel like you have to fit a mold.  You are an individual! You are special just the way you are.  Don't change just to please someone else!"  The paper is from Recollections.

Page 4 uses a Heather Valentin image colored with alcohol markers.  The papers are from DCWV and the sentiment reads, "Everyone needs that one friend who loves you regardless.  Nothing can break the bond of that friendship!!"

Page 5 uses a RSD image and a Teresa Collins paper. This beautiful lady is colored with Crayola colored pencils and OMS.  She's fussy cut and inked with DI Vintage Photo.  Sentiment is, "Always listen to yourself.  You don't always need someone else to give you advice.  You are your own best advice giver!"

And, Page 6 is another RSD image.  I love this witch.  I colored her with Crayola and I am a heavy handed colorer, so I used a kneadable eraser to remove some of the black on her dress.  This one uses DCWV paper and the sentiment says, "Some days you just have to let your inner witch out!"

Tomorrow I am going to try and make the covers for this book and put it together.  But, whenever I do get it finished, I am going to post the completed book. 

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to every one of you who left comments on my blog these past 31 days.  Your wonderful comments kept me going when I wanted to throw in the towel.  I truly appreciate the time that you spent looking at my creations.  I have had such a wonderful time making these "out of my comfort zone" creations and sharing them with all of you.  I have "followed" I think all of the Wicked Bloggers blogs.  I want to make sure that I keep up with what all of you are creating.  I have my favorite artists, as all of us do, and I don't want to lose track of y'all.  I have learned so much this past month and have an arsenal of ideas to try in the upcoming months.  Because of this blog hop, I am now a Stampin' Up Demonstrator and am starting a new avenue in  my life.  I hope I can make it succeed, but if not, hey, a discount on Stampin' Up is always good, right.

Make sure to stay tuned to Terra's blog in the next few days for the remaining winners of the Scavenger Hunt as well as the grand prize winner...Oh I so want to win...my daughter wants the pj's..LOL.  Take care, stay well and keep on cranking out those amazing projects.!!

Day 30 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 30.  As we come to the close of this month long extravaganza, I have a quick little ATC that I made in about all of 5 minutes.  With my daughter being sick, I didn't have alot of time to craft the past couple of days.  So, here goes.

I used a background paper from Bearly Mine, which was a freebie.  I printed it out at ATC size and adhered it to a piece of cereal box.  I inked around the edges with Vintage Photo DI.  The stamp is a digi that I found for free online through a free image search.  I like that wise old owl.  I printed it at about 1.5"x2" and inked the edges again with DI Vintage Photo.  I added a sentiment from my stash and some black pearls.

Very quick and easy today.  Make sure to stop by Terra's blog to check out the sponsors for today and the winners.  See ya tomorrow for our last day of this wonderful hop.

Day 29 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello friends.  Welcome to Day 29.  Only 2 more to go.  I don't know whether to be sad or happy.  It's been one heck of a haul, hasn't it?  I've loved every minute of it though.

Today's offering is a "S" fold or "Z" fold card, depends on how you first learned it.  I used two of Delicious Doodles images, The Graveyard and Vampiress.  At first, I was going to add her to the scene with pop dots, but the more I looked at the graveyard, I realized I didn't want to cover it up.  So, I made the "Z" fold card.

I did some shading on the graveyard with eyeshadow.  Yep, that's right.  Eyeshadow.  It makes wonderful chalk.  Plus, it adds some shimmer.  I found some great palettes of eyeshadow at Walgreen's for $1 each.  One even had black in it.  So, I shaded the sky with black and purple and the ground with shades of brown.  Some of the grave stones have a opalescent shimmer to them.  Vampiress is colored with Crayola colored pencils and OMS.  She looks a little light, but that's just the camera.  The sentiment is from my computer.  I added the journaling space to the inside of the fold so as not to cover up the graveyard. I added a few little Martha Stewart glitter bats to finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoyed your stop here along this great hop.  Make sure to stop by Terra's  blog for the winners of the Scavenger Hunt, today's sponsors and a refresher on the rules if you need them.  I'm assuming that by this time, you know them by heart. :)  See ya tomorrow for Day 30. 

I'm going to enter this card in the Left of Center challenge for this fortnight.

Giveaway Winners.

Hello there my friends.  I am posting today to reveal the winners of the giveaway.  My daughter has tracheal bronchitis, so she isn't feeling so well.  So, that leaves me to pick the winners.  Unfortunately, I will not be able to leave the house to go to the Post Office to mail these out to you ladies until Thursday. I'm sorry that these won't make it to your homes' until after Halloween, but you will have it for next year..right??:)

I put all three names in a bowl and drew two winners.  So, since both of you wanted in the drawing for both items, the first person to email me with your address gets to pick which one you would like to have.

So, the two items were the Green and Black 8x10 canvas and the 5x7 Rick St. Dennis images canvas.  Here we goooooo!!!!!

The two winners are:

Mo  and Lisa.  Congrats ladies.

I will be watching my email to see who contacts me first.  My email is timandem2000atyahoodotcom.

Day 28 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Howdy folks.  Thanks so much for hanging in with us during this month long hop sponsored by Smeared and Smudged.  Make sure to hop on over to Terra's blog (first stop on the blog roll to the right) for a list of sponsors, winners, and rules.

First off, I would like to wish my Granny a wonderful, spectacular, fantabulous 90th birthday today.  I wish I could be with you, Granny, but I'm thinking of you.  My granny lives in Virginia and I live in Pennsylvania and I just am not financially able to go visit.  I miss her and hope she has a great day!

Today's card is in honor of my Granny.  She's a princess but when I was growing up, boy could she be a witch.  I know now that everything she did, she did it for my benefit.  But, you know how us teens can be.
Thanks, Granny, for loving me enough to be tough on me.

This little cutie is from Cuttlebug Cuties.  Anna Stillwell has some of the most beautiful images.  I colored her with colored pencils and OMS and added some glitter to her bodice.  The papers are some oldies from DCWV.  I printed out the sentiment from my Word Processing program and added some black rhinestones to finish it off.  

Since Granny's birthday is so close to Halloween, I am using this card as her birthday card.  On the inside it says, "That spell is for a Happy Birthday."  

Thanks again for stopping by today.  Only 3 more days to go.  Hang in there and keep hopping. :)

Mondays with Digi Darla

Welcome back to another episode of Mondays with Digi Darla.  It's almost Halloween here in the states and our challenge this week is very fitting.  Use a Halloween image that fits a Halloween Movie.   With so many spooky, creepy movies out there, you have quite a vast array to choose from.  I chose the movie Twilight.  Yep, that's right...I'm so totally Team Edward.  There is just something sexy about a sparkling vampire.  And it helps that Robert Pattinson has that sexy, pouty mouth.

I used "Halloween Boy" for my image and colored him with Crayola colored pencils, a Prisma skin colored pencil and OMS.  He's die cut, embossed and matted onto a black and red card stock from Recollections.  The patterned papers are from Teresa Collins and Recollections.  I added some red rhinestones and I hand wrote the sentiment.  I took my Sakura Gelly Roll glitter pen and added some sparkle to this little guys skin.

I hope y'all enjoyed your stop today here at my blog and I hope to see y'all at Digi Darla this week.

Day 27 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Welcome, friends, to Day 27.  I have noticed a drop off of participants in the hop..it's been a long haul for some of you.  Thank you to all those who are hanging in there with us.  To my Wicked Blogger pals, I have thoroughly enjoyed each and every project you have created.  There have been some that piqued my curiosity, some that blew my socks off and some that totally creeped me out.  You guys are a talented bunch of artist.

Today's offering is a little card that I threw together quickly.  Today was catch up on chores day so I didn't have alot of time to craft.  I still have quite a bit to catch up on, but I'm getting there.  

I found this green web paper in my scrap bin and thought, hey, this would be good to make a card with.  I used a white gel pen to draw some faux stitching to replicate the spider's web threads and attached some little spiders from a confetti pack that I bought a couple years ago.  The stamp in the bottom corner is an old one from Inkadinkado.  I added some gems and that finished up this quickie.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Make sure to check Terra's blog for all the winners, sponsors and rules.  Hope on over to Lisa's blog now and she what she has created.

Day 26 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there!  Welcome to  Day 26.  Can you believe our hop is almost over.  I don't know whether to be thankful or sad.  I'm going to miss seeing all these wonderful projects daily.  I have followed most of the blogs so that I can keep up with my fellow Wicked Bloggers.

Today's offering is a card.  It's a bit different than most Halloween cards.  I did not use any Halloween papers or colors.

I used a Delicious Doodles image.  She's colored with Crayola colored pencils.  I printed four copies of the frame and did the same technique as on Day 10 with the Gothic Bride.  I used a piece of The Paper Studio patterned paper with tons of sea shells on it. I used an Inkadinkado stamp set called Coastal to stamp the row of sea shells on my torn piece of Kraft card stock.  It's stamped with Espresso Truffle ink.   I used an Inkadinkado sentiment stamped in Espresso Truffle from Memento.  I used two punches from the Paper Studio to die cut the sentiment.  Adding some gems on the sentiment and on the inside of the frame finished off this card.

Thanks for stopping in today.  I hope y'all are having fun along the hop.  Make sure to check in with Terra to see if you have won one of yesterday's prizes and to see the sponsors for today.

Don't forget to check out my giveaway post here.

I am going to enter this project into the Scrapbook Stamp Society challenge for this week.

Welcome to Day 25 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop sponsored by Smeared and Smudged.  Terra has been working her butt off on this hop and she deserves some love.  Make sure you stop by her blog..first one on the list and leave her some.

I want to apologize for the crappiness of the picture for today.  My camera decided to not work right so I had to use the web cam on my laptop.  I couldn't edit it at all.

I used a cute little zombie from Opal Manor to create this card.  I colored him with Crayola colored pencils and fussy cut him out.  I used some Spellbinders to make a place for him to rest.  The papers are from my stash and the card stock is Recollections and Colorbok.  I didn't add any embellies cause I wanted the little zombie to take center stage.

Thanks so much for stopping by my place today.  Make sure to head through the rest of the blogs today.  I hope to see y'all tomorrow for another Halloween project.

Don't forget to enter into my giveaway...see the Giveaway Post for all the information.

Giveaway Time

Hello there my Horrifying Hoppers and Wicked Bloggers.  I have decided to give away not 1 but 2 of the projects I have created so far in this hop.  I gave away the Haunted Birdhouse and I sure hope the Vicky enjoys it.

So, the two that I am going to give away are the 8x10 canvas that I created on Wednesday and the 5x7 canvas that my daughter decided to claim, but has since changed her mind since I made another one that uses Melonheadz Friends, Vampires, on it.  So, if you would like to be entered into the contest to win either one of these, please leave me a comment on this post.  In your comment, please tell me which one you would like to be entered for, or both if you like and....yep, there always an and...#1 tell me your favorite altered art technique and #2 tell me your favorite Halloween time movie or book.

I think my favorite movie of all time for Halloween is Hocus Pocus.  I absolutely love Bette Middler in that movie.  She's hysterical.  My favorite book really isn't a book, but a series of books about the Argeneau family of Vampires by Lynsay Sands.  If you haven't ever read her stuff, you have to.  She will have you laughing from start to finish.

So, make sure if you want to enter, you do so by Saturday night so that Kierstynne can pick a winner and I can get these mailed out on Monday.  Unfortunately, you probably won't get them by Halloween, but you can always use them for next year. :)  Good luck

If you want a reminder photo, please see Day 24 and Day 9.

Day 24 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there.  It's Day 24 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  That means only 7 more days of projects.  Kinda sad I think.

Today's project is a 8x10 canvas featuring a stamp from Stitchy Bear.

I began by painting the whole thing with Making Memories acrylic paint in Peapod.  I then smeared some Mayco Flat Black acrylic paint strategically around the canvas.  I took my hot glue gun and randomly added some strings of glue.  I then added some creepy cloth while the glue was still hot.  Then, I tore a piece of patterned paper and adhered it with Modge Podge to the right side.  Then the fun started.  I just kept adding things until I got a look I liked.  I added some ribbon flowers, cachabons, gemstones, feathers, and a skeleton.  I cut off one of his arms and one of his legs and glued those in different spots on the canvas.  I did ink him a little with DI Vintage Photo because he was just too white.  The image  is a cute little zombie lady that I colored with Spectrum Noir pens and fussy cut, added some pop dots and stuck her on.

It didn't turn out exactly as I had planned, but it's ok, I guess.

Remember to check in with Terra's Blog for the winners of the Scavenger Hunt, rules and sponsors.  If you need it, the entire blog roll is to the right of this post.

Thanks for stopping by today.  See y'all tomorrow.

Day 23 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Howdy, Horrifying Hoppers.  Thanks so much for coming back day after day to visit me.  I truly appreciate all the great comments that y'all leave for me.  I love to read them.  If you want to know who won the prizes from yesterday, make sure to check out Terra's blog (she's the first stop along the hop). You can also find the rules and sponsors.

Today I made an actual sized ATC using one of Teri's images from Delicious Doodles.  I had one of you great ladies leave me the actual size on my comments so I was able to create the correct size.  Thanks so much :)

I think she looks rather inviting..a succubus for sure!  I left her in black and white and just added a touch of red to the sheet covering her.  I tried my hand at the acrylic paint texture background, but it didn't bubble up very much.  Adding the black rose bow finished off this ATC.

Thanks so much, again, for stopping by and I'll see y'all tomorrow.

Day 22 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

It's Day 22 and I have another altered, recycled project for y'all.  This time, I had a bit of help.  My daughter, Kierstynne, loves to play with all my supplies.  She sees my folder of digi stamps on the computer and her eyes glaze over.  She wanted to color her first Kenny K image, so she picked out one  and colored it with her markers.  Yep, that's right..she has her own set of markers and she's not allowed to mess with mine. 

I found this jar ring when I was cleaning out my junk drawer and knew I would never use it for canning.  But, for some odd reason, I just didn't toss it.  I'm so glad I didn't.  Here's what I came up with....

I took the ring and drew around the edges to measure the chipboard backing pieces.  I hand cut them out then laid one of them onto the patterned paper and cut it out.  I hot glued the inside piece and the backing piece to  the ring.  I then fussy cut Kierstynne's image out and cut a title.  I used pop dots to add the witch and hot glue for the sentiment.  You really can't see it, but around the outside of the ring is some 1/4" black satin ribbon and 6mm green rhinestones.  

I think it turned out pretty good.  Of course, I won't ever see it again as it has disappeared into the great chasm that is Kierstynne's bedroom.  She has a 4 ft. pink Christmas tree in her room that stays up all year and she adds stuff to it that she wants to display year round.  There's lots of Halloween stuff on it right now.

Thanks for taking a break on my blog and I hope y'all have a great day!  Make sure to stop by Terra's blog for all the lists and rules.

Day 21 of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop

Hello there, Horrifying Hoppers.  Welcome to Day 21 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  I'm so glad y'all are joining me for today's post.  Remember to stop in over at Terra's blog for the list of sponsors, winners and rules.  Also, you can find links to the Smeared and Smudged store, monthly stamp club and lots more.

Today's project is a recycled, altered project.  I bought a set of SU stamps from a friend and they were brand new, unmounted on their blocks.  I use cling foam (to save space) and thought to myself..'What to do with these blocks'..then it hit me..use them for one of my 31 Days projects.  So, that's just what I did.

I began by staining them with Walnut Stain.  I only put one coat on them because I wanted some distress.  I used papers from Authentique's Thrilling 6x6 pad and DCWV.  I inked all the edges and used sticky tape to adhere everything.  I had all the papers on, and was ready to glue on the spiders and hand when it dawned on my  lightening fast mind.."Hey, dummy, you forgot to add a stamped image."  Oh, dang.  I had somehow forgotten that each project has to have at least one stamped image...so, what to do? What to do?  Turn them over and stamp on the backs. I used a spider web from an Inkadinkado set and the bats and moons from the same set.  I stamped the spider webs with Staz On White and the bats with Staz On Black.  I added few little spiders and cute little bat to the backs.  So now, they do double duty.  I can mix and match them when I display them.

Thank so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all are enjoying this hop.  Jump on over to Lisa's blog now and see what's she's done up for us today.  See ya tomorrow.

Mondays with Digi Darla

Good morning, friends.  Welcome to a Mondays with Digi Darla segment.  This week, our challenge is "Anniversaries"
There isn't a specification on what type of anniversary, so it could be a birthday, a wedding anniversary, a job anniversary, etc.  

I chose to do a wedding anniversary because when I saw this sentiment, I knew I had to use it.  Then, I just had to pick an image to go with it.  Most people do it the other way around, but hey, I like to think outside the box. :)

I just love this sentiment because I do this to my husband all the time.  Having diabetes makes my feet cold, even in the summer, and he's like my own personal hot rock. So, I always stick my feet on him to warm them up..lol

I used an EK Success label punch on the sentiment and added two blue rhinestones to each side.  It's on pop dots.  The image is called "Happy Couple #5" and I colored it with Crayola colored pencils and OMS.  I love orange and blue together.  It's such a refreshing combo I think.  I used a BIC marker to add some polka dots to the comforter. I cut it down and inked around the edges with Memento Bahama Blue. ( I did the same thing on the sentiment)  I used a piece of orange card stock and a piece of turquoise card stock from Recollections to mat the image.  The DPs are all from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope y'all enjoyed my funny little anniversary card.  Make sure to jump over Digi Darla's blog and check out the challenge.  Hope to see y'all there.